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Alaska and Northwest Canada

Sea ice is still insulating the northern coastline of Alaska's North Slope in this MODIS image from May 22, 2002. In northern Alaska, the towering Brooks Mountain range slopes downward to the coastline is a broad plain called the North Slope. In this image the tundra is beginning to show through the melting snow, while the mountains are still covered. South of the Brooks Range, central Alaska is greening up.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published May 23, 2002
Data acquired May 22 - 22, 2002

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Visible Earth